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I have been on that bridge! My mom had a brief rebound marriage to a guy who grew up in that Richfield neighborhood, his parents still lived there in the late 70âs/early 80âs. What isnât mentioned is there was a public swimming pool on Richfield side that wouldâve been accessible to kids from the Boomington side. It wasnât only for the school.
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Thereâs a new holiday tomorrow (no, not Rosh Hashanah!) and if anyoneâs in NYC there are events planned:
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This video is cued to start at 24:07. This tells the story of a UFO encounter in Dexter, Michigan in 1966.
Numerous people had various sightings of a large UFO. In one instance, it hovered for four hours over a farmerâs field. Dr. Hynek â at this time still an Air Force stooge â visited the area and made a weak suggestion that it might have been glowing swamp gas.
This was apparently the first use of the clichĂ©ed âswamp/marsh gasâ explanation.
The local population were upset because they felt that they werenât being taken seriously. Their congressman, Gerald Ford, organized a hearing to find out what the Air Force was really doing. Walter Cronkite put together a special news report titled âUFOs: Friend, Foe or Fantasy.â
All of this furore sounded familiar.
I feel like this event is what inspired the Creedence Clearwater Revival song âIt Came Out of the Sky.â
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I highly recommend his works. Get a copy of âWhiskey Riverâ ASAP!
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Iâve actually used this argument with regard to quitting practices in businesses, but I think itâs specifically well-suited when it comes to religious situations:
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I think this is sort of related to what youâre saying. When I was a middle management engineer for an HVAC manufacturer, the HR department (which was literally 2 peopleâŠwe werenât a huge corporation) would conduct an annual employee satisfaction survey. And every year, a consistent conclusion of this survey, along with exit interviews of people who had left the company, was that money was never the primary reason someone left or stayed. And they used this as justification for not raising wages or salaries. It drove me nuts. They were so clearly deluding themselves and getting the answer they wanted, just like your article talks about most people leaving the church for casual reasons instead of because of widespead abuses. Itâs amazingly easy to fool yourself when you want to.
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Exactly! I have never left a job strictly because of money, but the 20%+ pay raises moving has routinely given me certainly donât help me want to stick around.
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I once had to explain to upper management that when an entire department â all women â leave within 3 months of each other, all citing âwant to spend more time with familyâ, that maybe the new hired-from-outside department manager should be considered as the real reason. Letâs see: the employees were all long-standing and considered experienced and professional, and yet starting from about 2 weeks after this new manager started, they just kept handing in their notices with that âcasualâ explanation until they were all gone within 3 months. Hmmmm, thatâs just so tough to figure out.
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At a different job I had, the company got sold and the new owners sent in a hot shot young executive to run our company. They had hired him away from Harley Davidson. This was in 1998, so not long after Harleyâs noteworthy turnaround. Anyway, this guy comes in and just starts changing everything, and heâs really big on telling people how important our work was. Engineering was behind on a lot of projects, mainly because the sales department would never say no to a customer special request and we didnât have enough engineers to run that kind of a business. So he calls our engineering manager into his office, and then our engineering manager calls a meeting with all of us to tell us that we are all on mandatory 10 hour days, 6 days a week until further notice. Now, half of the department were degreed engineers. We were salaried, exempt from overtime rules. So we werenât getting compensated for this. About 2 weeks later, our engineering manager is the first to announce heâs leaving the company. Then our controls engineer a week later, then me a week after that. Within 6 months, all of the degreed engineers had left. A year later, that new hot shot was shown the door, after almost running a 50 year old business into the ground.
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Itâs very widely known that âpeople donât quit jobs they quit bossesâ. Anyone whoâs worked somewhere for awhile knows it to be true.
There are a few exceptions of course. I quit a job after I started college, because I thought I could work nightshift full time and just take some classes in the early morning and some evening classes, but due to prerequisites and scheduling limits, that didnât work out. I lasted about a month going to school all day and working all night and just napping in breakrooms before I had to make a serious choice. I also quit one when I moved to another state. And another one when I went from a retail to a career job. None of those were about the boss or even the job. I liked those jobs and got along fine with the bosses.
But usually, unless thereâs a major life change, itâs the boss. And if several people are quitting, itâs almost definitely the boss (or possibly a higher-up that the boss is not standing up to).
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I suspect a lot of that is informed speculation as much as anything, but itâs interesting. I wouldnât be at all surprised if the Murdoch kids sell Fox after Rupert dies. So I think the more interesting question is, who buys it? Warner-Discovery would probably love to, but they already own CNN, and I think the government would likely say no to that, assuming Trump doesnât end up back in the White House. We have 3 broadcast networks: ABC, NBC, and CBS. And we have 3 major cable news networks: CNN, MSNBC, and Fox. Obviously, NBC-Universal owns both NBC and MSNBC. Disney owns ABC. Paramount owns CBS. And, as I already said, Warner-Discovery owns CNN. So if theyâre out, that leaves Disney and Paramount to vie over Fox. Disney already bought 20th Century Fox from Fox Corp. I think Disney makes a huge play for FoxNews if it ends up for sale. And I think the government would have trouble finding a reason to deny it since Universal owns NBC and MSNBC. So Iâm making that prediction now. When Rupert Murdoch dies, his kids sell FoxNews to Disney.
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